Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 122

What was that?" said one of the thieves in a fright; "I heard some one speaking."

Who acts: I, one · What happens: be, say, hear, speak · To what, where: that, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	nsubj:outer
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 that	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 thieves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thieves	det
10	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fright	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fright	det
13	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thieves	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 one	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		that	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	past	I	some one	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	gerund	some one not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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